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New Partnership Expands International Residency Placements
The Global Health Equity Track prepares resident physicians across all specialties to understand the factors shaping global health equity and to collaborate with populations to…
March 28, 2025
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Can It Be Five Years? Reflecting on the Living Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Five years ago, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs hosted a meeting on how religious stakeholders could shape COVID-19.…
March 11, 2025
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Global Cancer Collaborative Launched by the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Global Health Institute
Cancer is a leading global health challenge. A report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer…
March 4, 2025
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Hope, Healing, and Global Health: Q&A with Norman J. Beauchamp, M.D., MHS, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean, School of Medicine
What formative personal and professional experiences have shaped your approach to global health as executive vice president of health sciences at GUMC? My mom was a community…
February 26, 2025
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H5N1 Influenza Vaccines and the Current Outbreak
The current H5N1 influenza outbreak represents a challenge to global health security. On November 15, 2024, Georgetown University convened a webinar bringing together 20 experts…
February 18, 2025
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Target Product Profile for Cell-based and Gene-based Therapies to Achieve a Cure for HIV
The Center for Global Health Practice and Impact's Lauren Mathae published this target product profile in the Lancet HIV as potential cell and gene therapy-based products for an…
February 4, 2025
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Reflecting on 2024, a Milestone Year for the Georgetown University Global Health Institute
As we look back on a milestone year, we celebrate the expansion in our student fellowship program, the introduction of new global health initiatives, and the strengthening of key…
February 4, 2025
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Georgetown University Launches Two New Projects to Strengthen Laboratory and Public Health Systems in Africa and Asia
Combating AMR is an increasing priority in global health. A 2024 study published in The Lancet revealed alarming trends from 1990 to 2021, where AMR claimed over…
February 3, 2025
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WHO Withdrawal Could Be a Disaster—or an Opportunity
In this analysis piece published in Foreign Policy, the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics's Matthew Kavanagh explores the legal and political challenges around…
January 23, 2025
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Cultural and Contextual Adaptation of the Solastalgia Sub-scale of the Environmental Distress Scale in Drought-affected Kilifi, Kenya
In a study published in Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, the Department of Global Health's Shabab Wahid and the School of Foreign Service's Emily Mendenhall conducted a…
January 22, 2025